| November 2009 |
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A Russian communist legislator on Tuesday suggested removing the word "God" from the national anthem in order to unite the multiethnic country.
Mikhail Lesin, a media aide to the Russian president, has resigned, the Kremlin press service said Tuesday. 
Russia loses up to two trillion rubles ($70 billion) annually due to drug-related crimes, Federal Drug Control Service head Viktor Ivanov said on Tuesday.
The creation of a Ukrainian-Polish-Lithuanian peacekeeping brigade is an attempt by the West to woo former post-Soviet countries while not formally admitting them to NATO, a Russian analyst said Tuesday.
More than 5,600 swine flu cases have been officially confirmed in Russia, the health minister said on Tuesday.
Russia is close to finishing the construction of Iran's first nuclear power plant and is currently making final adjustments, Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said on Tuesday.
Three rare Amur leopards have been born in Primorye Region, an Amur department spokesman for the World Wildlife Fund said on Tuesday.
The U.S. ambassador to Moscow confirmed on Tuesday that the United States will continue to use Russian Soyuz spacecraft after space shuttles retire from service in 2010.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will arrive in Stockholm on Tuesday for an EU-Russia summit to focus on energy security and a new cooperation pact, a Kremlin aide said.
The U.S. ambassador said Russia and the United States have good chances of signing a new nuclear arms reduction treaty this year.
Police have seized 9.5 kilograms of heroin from a pensioner in the Sverdlovsk Region of Russia's Urals, the local police force said on Tuesday.
A new nuclear arms reduction treaty between Russia and the United States may yet be signed by December 5, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
Russia's foreign minister said on Tuesday there was no connection between the ongoing international dispute over Iran's nuclear program and a delay in launching the country's first nuclear power plant.
Russia's crude oil output (including gas condensate), expanded 0.8%, year-on-year in January-October 2009 to 410 million metric tons (3 billion barrels), the country's top statistics body Rosstat said on Tuesday.
Russia and Slovakia have signed a deal on long-term cooperation in nuclear power engineering, Russia's state nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly AtomStroyExport said on Tuesday.
Gas consumption in Europe will fall a record 5-7% in 2009, Gazprom deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev said on Tuesday. 
Three tramps in Russia's Urals city of Perm killed an acquaintance, ate his remains and then sold the rest of his body to a nearby kebab house, Russian media have reported.
Regular transit of U.S. military cargo and personnel to Afghanistan over the Russian territory will start soon after the final logistics issues have been resolved
Bookstores in New York and London will start on Tuesday the sales of Vladimir Nabokov's final unfinished novel, 'The Original of Laura.'



